Final Flashcards
What Four elements must be present for a theatrical tradition to begin?
tribal well being,rising nationalism, Less religious control, emergence of 1 or more great artist.
For what purposes were early dramatic rituals used?
Win wars, Change the weather, win the favor of the gods.
Where did Western theatrical tradition begin?
Greece
What were the choral odes from which greek dramatic literature evolved called?
Dithyrambs
Who wrote Oedipus Rex and added a third actor to the players?
Sophocles
What are the characteristics of a Greek tragic her?
Good man of noble birth gets into trouble through no fault of his own, has a fatal character flaw.
What are the six elements of criticism in the Poetics
Plot, Characters, Language, theme, music, spectacle
What medieval choral form, like the dithyramb gave rise to liturgical drama?
Tropes “quem quaerities”
Why did the church outlaw theatre in the Middle Ages?
Get rid of paganism, because of its decadence.
What were the major forms of Medieval liturgical drama?
Morality, Mystery, Mirical Plays (three M’s)
What were the themes of Medieval liturgical drama?
Church tenets(mortality), Bible Stories(Mystery), Saint (Mirical)
What did Italian Renaissance contribute to the Theater.
Painted scenery, pit box and gallery seating, universal themes.
What was the improvisational theater developed in Italy called?
Commedia del Arte
What were the religious plays written during the Spanish Renaissance called?
Autosacromentalis
The French playwrights followed the Aristotelian form of the unities, What are the unities?
Action, time, and place.
Name three French renaissance playwrights?
Racien,Corneille, Moliere
Of the Three playwrights from French renaissance was considered the greatest comic dramatist of France and, like Shakespeare, a true man of the theatre because he was an actor manager as well as a playwright?
Moliere
What is the period of theater called that followed Charles II’s return to England?
Restoration
What theatrical convention did the returning nobles bring to England from the continent?
Women on stage, indoor theaters with painted scenery
Who were the first men to receive Royal Patents to produce theater?
Killigrew, and Davenant
What contemporary theaters still operate on the patents of Killigrew’s Theatre Royal and Davenant’’s dorset Garden Theatre?
Drury Lane, Covent garden opera house
Restoration comedy was based on Moliere’s comedy of manners. What are the characteristics of comedy of manners?
Poked fun at social conventions, satirized the upperclass, emphasized sexual innuendo, and had witty dialog.
Acting companies took on a different managerial style during the Restoration. What was the prominent management style?
Star system
The 18th century was noted for its globalization, developments in learning and philosophy as well as governmental change. What is this period called?
Age of Enlightenment
What new dramatic form replaced the neoclassical form in french drama?
The Drame
There are two forms of these dramas. What were they called and what were their characteristics?
The domestic drame, and the bourgeoisie they are mellow dramatic. Melodramatic and romantic in nature. Characteristics are cost to effect, plotting, contrived climax
Name three writers of note from the 18th century.
Sheridan, Gurtia, Goldonie
The French drame took a more melodramatic turn in Germany with a tendency toward naturalism and violence. This school of play writing was called what?
Sturm und Drang
What Italian family became they noted scenic designers of the 18th century? They instituted masking top borders, ground rows, and multiple point perspective painting.
Bibena
What 18th century writer/actor/managers are credited with beginning of the theatrical director? They believed that one person should be responsible for all the major artistic decisions.
Garrick, Goethe
The early 19th century brought about mechanization and the development of factors as an expansion of an urban working class. This period is called what?
Industrial Revolution
Many acting families became popular during the Industrial revolution. Two of the most prominent families were who?
Kembles, and Keans.
Define Climactic plot structure?
Few characters, few locations, starts late in the story
How was the Spanish Renaissance different from the English Renaissance in the writing of dramatic literature?
Spanish wrote secular and liturgical(church) drams. English wrote only Secular.
How were the Spanish Renaissance and the English Renaissance similar in theater architecture?
They were outdoor stages with no painted scenery, it also had pitbox and gallery seating.
How did they move the painted sceneries during the Italian Renaissance?
With poles and chariot systems.
What makes Shakespeare’s plays great?
Universal themes, use of language, ongoing action off stage, and understanding of human psychology.
Who were the two most prominent names in operetta?
Gilbert and Sullivan
What are the characteristics of a well-made play?
Build mechanically to climax. Cause effect motivation. Intended to arouse audience. Intent/contrived climaxes rather than truthful characteristics of emotions
What movement in playwrighting proposed that everything on stage should resemble everyday life?
Realism
Who was the father of ralism
Ibsen
Name some theatre forms that were a departure from Realism.
Surrealism, expressionism, symbolism, dadaism, aburdism, The ISIMS
What are the themes of absurdist theatre?
Humans are doomed to live in pain and anguish, and life is meaningless.
What Russian director created a new technique of acting in response to the realist movement?
Constantin Stanislavski
What was the new technique of acting called in the United States?
“Method”
What member of the Group Theatre became noted teacher of the Russian acting technique to actors like Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe?
Lee Stransberg.
What were the influences that helped form the American musical comedy?
Burlesque, Operetta, Minstrel shows, Ballad opera.
One of the departures from Realism, Epic theatre, was developed in Germany by whom?
Bricht
Who did Queen Victoria name the first Master of Revels early in her reign?
Charles Kean
What innovation is Charles Keen in theatre is he noted for?
The merchant of venice
What innovations in theatre presentation was Sir Henry Irving noted for?
Masking the stage for light spill, Darkening the audience, closeing curtains for scene change.
What are the attributed of epic theatre?
Scene stands on there own. Scenes Introduced with by signs or narration. Music erupts for no reason, Alienation of the audience (alienation effect)
